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Skatole as a Root Forming Substance
THE activity of skatole as a growth-promoting substance has been noted by Glover1. We have carried out experiments which show that skatole accelerates root formation in cuttings. Cuttings of Leptospermum soopariu...
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Tungus Event
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Muscle Mass and Composition in Malnourished Infants and Children and Changes Seen after Recovery
Summary: A method for measuring muscle mass in children with [15N]creatine has been used to study changes in muscle after recovery from protein-energy malnutrition. Creatine pool size, muscle mass, total muscle c...
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Nitrogen Metabolism in Preterm Infants Fed Human Donor Breast Milk: the Possible Essentiality of Glycine
Summary: Nitrogen metabolism was studied in three preterm infants (mean gestation 32 wk) by the method of consecutive metabolic balance. The absorption and retention of nitrogen from breast milk was measured, ...
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Infrared brightness of a comet belt beyond Neptune
We consider the infrared brightness of a flattened comet belt beyond the orbit of Neptune using a disk-like model with a power-law density distribution of comets. We compare this spectrum with the emission fro...
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A Solar System dust ring with the Earth as its shepherd
Bodies orbiting in the gravitational fields of galactic, solar or planetary systems often suffer dissipative forces, including tidal interactions and drag resulting from motion through a gas or from collisions...
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Irish society of gastroenterology
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Sugars not for burning
In the government report on dietary sugars (COMA, 1989), one point of interest made abundantly clear, both from the comments invited from the public at large during the preparation of the report, and the gener...
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Prevalence of risk of undernutrition is associated with poor health status in older people in the UK
Objective: To establish the prevalence of the risk of undernutrition, using criteria similar to those used by the Malnutrition Advisory Group (MAG), in people aged 65 y and over, and to identify relationships bet...
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Training does not affect protein turnover in pre- and early pubertal female gymnasts
This study compared protein turnover in ten young female gymnasts [10.3 (0.5) years] engaged in regular intense physical training with ten age-matched controls [9.4 (0.6) years)]. Nitrogen flux ( Q), protein synt...
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Relationship between birth weight and urea kinetics in children
To explore the effect of birth weight on urea kinetics in young healthy children.
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Open AccessVitamin B12 and folate concentrations during pregnancy and insulin resistance in the offspring: the Pune Maternal Nutrition Study
Raised maternal plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) concentrations predict small size at birth, which is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus. We studied the association between maternal vitamin B12, folate an...
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Protein turnover
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Effect of physiological doses of oral vitamin B12 on plasma homocysteine: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial in India
Vitamin B12 (B12) deficiency is common in Indians and a major contributor to hyperhomocysteinemia, which may influence fetal growth, risk of type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this paper ...
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Clinical Utility of 13C-Liver-Function Breath Tests for Assessment of Hepatic Function
13C-Liver-function breath tests have been used in clinical diagnostics and, to a limited extent, to investigate hepatic function. From a practical perspective, tests such as the 13C-aminopyrine a...
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Body composition assessment in nutrition research: value of BIA technology
There is wide variability in the shape and size of an individual and their body composition. This partly reflects inherent genetic differences, but to a large extent is determined by the extent to which their ...